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May 2026 Links

Photographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Arch — Impressive images in a very unfriendly environment.

The Enduring Mystery Behind Iconic American Photograph ‘Lunch on a Beam’ — About the making of the iconic photograph, and the book written.

Reviewing the Most Beautiful Digital Camera Ever Made 22 Years Later — The Epson R-D1. A first (and last). It was the digital rangefinder M mount before Leica.

Film

Custom Camera Builder Dora Goodman Is Closing its Doors — The website doesn’t have details (yet) on the closure.

Inside Harman’s Bet on the Future of Analog Photography — Harman has a very strong role to play in the world of colour film photography.

DIY

DIY Project Turns a Panasonic GF3 and Soviet Fed 5 Into a Digital Rangefinder — another DIY project of build cameras from other camera parts.

This Photographer Built a Camera That Shoots Wider Than Any Camera You Can Buy — wider than the Fujifilm T-X1 / Hasselblad X-Pan.

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April 2026 Links

Fujifilm

Is Fujifilm finally ready to upgrade the brand’s most iconic feature? ­— DPreview talked to Fujifilm at CP+ in Yokohama, Japan, about the X-Half, GFX100RF and more.

Film

Eastman Kodak is distributing all its films again. What happens next? — Stephen Dowling from Kosmofoto gives us a redux on the situation.

Photographers Are Testing the New WideluxX F10 Panoramic Camera Now — WideluxX posted some updates and Petapixel tells us. The previously revealed prototype are now being put into use.

Photographers

Rare Collection of Elliott Erwitt Color Photos Show He Didn’t Just Use Black and White — I’m always game for colour work from the black ans white era. This usually mean Kodachrome as the medium.

Artemis II

Flying to the Moon.

Artemis II: Nikon and GoPro Are Winning Where Canon And Sony Fail — What cameras are on board of Artemis II? Nikon is the de-facto choice, along with GoPro.

Artemis II Astronauts Will Bring 10-Year-Old DSLRs With Them to the Moon — Old doesn’t mean obsolete. This was in February after the delayed launch.

A Nikon Z9 Made it Aboard the Artemis II Moon Mission at the Last Minute — In addition to the D5, the crew insisted to bring also a Z9. These are already in use on the ISS. The Z9 is also the basis of the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) that will be used on the Moon, like the Hasselblad 500EL were over 50 years ago. Note the article is incorrect on the mission. Unlike stated, the Moon landing mission will be Artemis IV, and not before 2028, as per the schedule change 27 February.

The Incredible Photos and Videos From NASA’s Artemis II Rocket Launch — The historic launch on April 1st photographed from multiples cameras. Stunning images.

Space program

Kodak’s BIMAT System — From the wayback machine since the blog has disappeared. A summary of the BIMAT Kodak film processing system that was used in the Lunar Orbiter Program in 1996 and 1967 to take pictures and develop them in space. The system was classified until the 2000s as it was also used for spying. The program was designed to identify landing site for the Apollo mission and its landings.

Lunar Orbiter — A more detailed article on the orbiter program.

DIY

IDENTIDEM.design Cameras — Not exactly DIY but not industrially produced but 3d printed medium format cameras, with a LIDAR, using Mamiya Press lenses. CA$1612 bring your own lens.

This New Medium Format Film Camera Can Change its Frame Size on the Fly — maybe more than DIY this medium format camera looks very interesting.

The first digital camera

Back in December 2025, BBC featured A ‘toaster with a lens’: The story behind the first handheld digital camera:

In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.

In a short summary, the first digital camera was invented at Kodak by Steve Sasson. Not because Sasson was asked to do it, but because, as a new hire, his first assignment was to checkout these new CCD chips. The bulky black and white camera took 100×100 pixels picture stored onto a cassette tape, to view the tape was read back for the image to be displayed on a TV. And business people always so this as a shift in the business if it every took. But in 1975 this was definitely not ready for anything, It needed hundred times more pixel to match even Instamatic 110 — which was the smallest format, before Kodak Disc.

Kodak had the future in their hands, but didn’t know what to do. It’s not that they did nothing, but what advance they had, they lost it as the competition caught up. After producing the first DSLRs with Nikon and Canon, making a good number of point and shoot cameras, and creating with Olympus the Four-Third format, they lost to the market and filed for bankruptcy in 2012, at which point they sold of a lot of business divisions, including the sensors.

After having emerged from bankruptcy over a decade ago, Kodak remains one of the few film manufacturers left in the world, while a lot of Kodak branded products are just that: branded. Fortunately Kodak seems to want continuing making film in a market that has completely shrunk, and for which its main competitor, Fujifilm, mostly withdrew.

March 2026 Links

Canon

Will it Finally Happen? A New Macro Lens Longer Than 100mm With Variable Magnification — A little refresher on Canon Macro lenses, with the legendary MP-E 65mm f2.8 5:1 magnification and the more recent EF 180 f3.5L USM. The MP-E 65mm was really a unique lens and has been discontinued for a while.

Fujfilm

Fujifilm X-E5 Review: Their Best Camera So Far — A review of the Fujifilm X-E5 by Alik Griffin. Still writing mine.

Panasonic

Panasonic sees the compact camera renaissance as an opportunity for Lumix — An interview by DPReview of Panasonic executives in wish they say that the compact camera market is growing again, that they are still committed to m4/3, and of course the full frame Lumix L. This is before they announced the ZS300/TZ300.

Instax

TTArtisan Wants You to Pay $400 to Beta Test Its Folding Instant Camera — I mentioned the TTArtisan Instax camera last year. There were conflicting report that it might have been cancelled, blocked by Fujfilm. No. It’s just taking time to develop and this update show it might be happening. Albeit this announcement show an unusual (to say the least) practice of selling a “beta” version for US$400. How much will the final product be?

Film

The Darkroom of Death: 10 Forgotten Hazards of Early Photography — Film processing is full of chemicals, some more toxic than other. It’s one of the reasons contributing to some films being discontinued in the 21st century: Kodachrome, Velvia, or process upgraded. Most of these processes have been replaced by less toxic ones.

Photographers

Doriyan Coleman Sees Poetry on the Streets of Cleveland, and He Has the Exhibition to Prove It — An interview with Doriyan Coleman.

The 10 Incredible Women Photographers to Follow Today (NSFW) — Always good to discover new artists.

DIY

Camera Geekery: Kodak Aerochrome cameras — On Japan Camera Hunter, a story of building a medium format camera.

This gorgeous DIY camera looks straight out of Severance — DPReview tested that DIY Saturnix digital camera.

February 2026 links

Film

Keeping up with the Kodak(ians) — What has been happening with Kodak, a tl;dr.

Film recipes

Realaty Film Simulation Recipe — Another film recipe based on Reala Ace.

Canon

Everything You’ll Ever Need to Know About Canon Lens Mounts and Compatibility — Notable omission in the article is the older FL mount.

DIY

BeerPAN 35mm SLR Makes Panoramic Film Photography Accessible — A prototype of a Panoramic film SLR camera. Interesting beast.

This 3D-Printed Camera Can Make You Fall in Love With Panoramic Analog Photography — Another 3D printable panoramic film camera.

This 6×17 Camera Could Revolutionize Panoramic Film Photography — Same camera as above.

December 2025 Links

Fujifilm

Shall We Talk About the Fujifilm X-Pro4? — Kevin Mullins talk about his expectations for the Fujifilm X-Pro4. In 2024. End of 2025 and we haven’t heard of anything.

Ross’s Fujifilm Recipes — Ross and his JPEGs has a bunch of Fujifilm recipes.

Winter Chrome — Just another film recipe.

X-E5 x FS RECIPE: Ben Savage — Fujifilm X story giving 3 film recipes.

X-E5 x FS RECIPE: Davide Gazzotti — Another Fujifilm X story with file recipe.

Panasonic

Digital Kodacolor 200 is Here. And It’s Beautiful — Lumix LUTs are Panasonic answer to Fujifilm film simulations / recipes. This one is for Kodacolor 200.

Kodacolor 200 — The original link for the one above from Ross and his JPEGs. Ross has many other recipes for Lumix, including conversion of other Fujifilm recipes (from the community). And the Fujifilm ones above.

DIY

This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You — 3D printing has a great potential.

Misc

What Bruce Davidson Taught Me About Street Photography — Frederik Trovatten talks about Bruce Davidson, New York based photographer know for his colour scenes from the New York subway in the 80s.

A couple of years with the Minolta P’s — A review of the Minolta P, and “panoramic” format 35mm film point and shoot, from someone who shoot the TX-1 or X-Pan regularly.

November 2025 Links

Film news

DPReview just confirmed that Eastman Kodak has resumed direct sales of consumer film after more than a decade — This following the release of Kodacolor and the repackaing of both Gold 200 and Ultramax 400.

Trying Aerocolor — Erica Fustero tries Kodak Aerocolor that is sold only by the brand respooling it, even though most of them don’t say it. It’s a 100 ISO colour negative.

Fujifilm

The Complete History of Fujifilm X and GFX Cameras — An almost up to date timeline of the Fujifilm X and GFX line.

Leica

Pope Francis’ One-of-a-Kind Leica Sold for Nearly 100x Its Estimated Value — It’s not a camera that will shoot a lot if at all. It should be noted it’s a film Leica M, not a digital one. It’s serial number 5000000 (five million) so is the Noctilux 50mm f/1.2. It sold for €6,500,000 (instead of the €60,000 estimated)

Pope Francis’s Leica M-A set sells for 100 times its estimate at Leitz Photographica Auction — Same thing but this article also mention the bsck-up Leica M3 of the one gifted in 1958 to Queen Elizabeth II by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. It sold for only €156,000.

A closer look at some of Queen Elizabeth II’s favorite cameras — The Queen used many cameras. Including one similar to the M3 mentioned above.

Other

Digicams: The Cameras of the Modern Digital Rebellion — About that trend of using old digicams…

Link: First impressions: Lomography LOMO MC-A

I mentioned the Lomography LOMO MC-A recently. Kosmo Foto has had the privilege to shoot with one for a while and now have their first impressions of the Lomography LOMO MC-A.

Lomography is know for cheap plastic cameras that define the style of what people call “Lomography”, a sort of lo-fi photography.

Lomography’s new 35mm compact camera is a world away from simpler cameras like the LomoApparat or the Fisheye No. 2.

As it stands the LOMO MC-A is already on a different trajectory of more premium, with a build quality that feel solid with metal parts, exposure system, autofocus with manual options.

The test rolls seems to show good results. At ₤450 (CA$699) it’s definitely not cheap, but the result seems to be on par. This show the commitment of Lomography to film photography in general, as they also release a new film. Kosmo Foto expects to publish a more thorough review in 2026.

September 2025 Links

Polaroid Versus Fujifilm – How a Court Case Could Change Instant Photography Forever — Seems like a repeat of Polaroid vs Kodak. Just because of the square shape…

From Emulsive, How-to: Make DIY your own black and white transparencies (slides) — Apparently Ilford has an official process with Ilford FP4 Plus, and this article revise it by using a chemical inversion instead of a re-exposure. I always wanted to shoot Agfa Scala. And Adox Scala, its successor, doesn’t seem so easy to find here.

What is a color space? by Dan Hollick. — A clear explanation of what a colour space is. Despite this being part of a tutorial on writing software, it is really not specific to this craft.